Calling all of you hard-working Power-Appers who have your hands full right now at home. We see you trying to work, teach your kids, do the laundry, and keep your sanity all at the same time. We thought you’d appreciate a chance to take a minute out of your day to enjoy a quick Power Break. Connect, laugh, and learn with your Power Apps community—and maybe even win a prize along the way.

The Power Platform has several sessions at the Build Developer Virtual Conference including rebroadcasting of “Accelerating enterprise app development with Power Platform”. The sessions included in this post show how professional developers can harness the capabilities of a no-code/low-code platform to rapidly create applications and work with citizen developers to accelerate an organizations development efforts.

Be the first to experience the new innovations across Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 on April 2 at the Microsoft Business Applications Virtual Launch Event—a free virtual event for everyone from app users to IT professionals.

On Monday, as news of COVID-19 cases spread globally, we pulled together a team to help customers coordinate their own information sharing and team collaboration in response to evolving conditions in times of crisis. Today, less than 48 hours later, we’re releasing the first version of that solution for any customer organization to quickly implement.

Made It with Power Apps is a series of weekly challenges that give you the opportunity to share your knowledge on everything Power Apps, from tips and tricks to useful Power Apps hacks. Head over to @MSPowerApps on Twitter every Monday (except the week of Thanksgiving) at 10:00 AM PST between November 11th and December 22nd to submit your video for a chance to win prizes like a Surface Pro, insulated mugs, $100 VISA gift cards, and more!

As we open Microsoft’s annual Ignite conference, it’s a good time to reflect on the factors that have propelled the staggering momentum behind Power Apps, and share some details of what the future looks like as the service matures. Whether you’re a seasoned #PowerAddict or just starting out with the platform, here’s the definitive “top 10” list of major innovation areas and trends to watch as Power Apps scales across organizations globally.

PowerApps Portals is a significant step towards empowering all PowerApps makers to create powerful low-code and responsive websites which allows users external to their organizations to interact with data stored in Common Data Service. Public Preview of PowerApps Portals starts today

As we open Microsoft Build 2019 this week, the Power Platform is a hot topic for software developers. That’s right: low-code has arrived as an important new capability in any professional developer’s toolkit. We’ve doubled down our efforts to ensure a “no cliffs” experience in PowerApps, allowing pros to augment the speed of low-code development … Continue reading “PowerApps for pros: develop faster with low code”

We’re excited to share that many of the items in the October Release Notes are now beginning to roll into preview environments and in some cases are already available in production! We’ve focused across the board on quality, more powerful CDS capabilities, more productive makers, great end user experiences, and improved admin visibility.